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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>DEUTERONOMY</span>
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CHAPTER 28
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If Israel is obedient they shall be blessed temporally and spiritually—If disobedient: they shall be cursed, smitten, and destroyed; diseases, plagues, and oppression shall come upon them; they shall serve false gods and become a byword among all nations; fierce nations shall enslave them; they shall eat their own children, and be scattered among all nations.
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And</span> it shall come to pass, if thou shalt <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Obedience.">hearken</a> diligently unto the voice of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, to observe <i>and</i> to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God will set thee on <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/28/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 26: 19.">high</a> above all nations of the earth:
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And all these <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Blessings; TG Israel, Blessings of.">blessings</a> shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God.
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Blessed <i>shalt</i> thou <i>be</i> in the city, and blessed <i>shalt</i> thou <i>be</i> in the field.
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Blessed <i>shall be</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Birth Control.">fruit</a> of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/28/4b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB beasts (also v. 11).">cattle</a>, the increase of thy kine, and the <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/28/4c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB increase of thy flocks (also v. 18, 51).">flocks</a> of thy sheep.
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Blessed <i>shall be</i> thy basket and thy <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/5a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB kneading trough.">store</a>.
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Blessed <i>shalt</i> thou <i>be</i> when thou <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 121: 8.">comest</a> in, and blessed <i>shalt</i> thou <i>be</i> when thou goest out.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 133: 3 (1-3).">command</a> the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/28/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Luke 12: 31; D&C 24: 3 (3-4).">all</a> that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/28/8c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ether 1: 43 (42-43).">land</a> which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God giveth thee.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall establish thee an <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Holiness.">holy</a> people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, and walk in his ways.
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And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 6: 27; Mosiah 26: 18.">name</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; and they shall be <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/28/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 11: 25.">afraid</a> of thee.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall make thee <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 30: 9 (8-10).">plenteous</a> in goods, in the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/28/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Birth Control.">fruit</a> of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall open unto thee his good <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Treasure.">treasure</a>, the heaven to give the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/28/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 26: 4; Deut. 11: 14.">rain</a> unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/28/12c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Borrowing.">borrow</a>.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do <i>them:</i>
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And thou shalt not go <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 124: 120.">aside</a> from any of the words which I command thee this day, <i>to</i> the right hand, or <i>to</i> the left, to go after other <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/28/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 5: 32 (32-33).">gods</a> to serve them.
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&#182; But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 26: 14 (14-45); Jer. 26: 4; Ezek. 11: 21; Mal. 2: 2; D&C 97: 26 (25-26); D&C 133: 63.">hearken</a> unto the voice of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/28/15b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Curse; TG Plagues.">curses</a> shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
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Cursed <i>shalt</i> thou <i>be</i> in the city, and cursed <i>shalt</i> thou <i>be</i> in the field.
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Cursed <i>shall be</i> thy basket and thy store.
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Cursed <i>shall be</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hag. 1: 10.">fruit</a> of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
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Cursed <i>shalt</i> thou <i>be</i> when thou comest in, and cursed <i>shalt</i> thou <i>be</i> when thou goest out.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hag. 2: 17.">smite</a> thee with a <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/28/22b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 26: 16.">consumption</a>, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
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And thy heaven that <i>is</i> over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that <i>is</i> under thee <i>shall be</i> iron.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
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And thy <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 16: 4; Mosiah 12: 2; JS-M 1: 27.">carcase</a> shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray <i>them</i> away.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> will <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/27a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Punishment.">smite</a> thee with the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/28/27b" mark="b" type="E" title="OR boils; Ex. 9: 9 (8-10).">botch</a> of Egypt, and with <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/28/27c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB hemorrhoids, or tumors.">the</a> <sup>d</sup><a href="deut/28/27d" mark="d" type="A" title="1 Sam. 5: 6.">emerods</a>, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
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And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/29a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 59: 10 (9-10); D&C 95: 6.">blind</a> gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/28/29b" mark="b" type="A" title="Omni 1: 6.">prosper</a> in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/28/29c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB robbed continually.">spoiled</a> evermore, and no man shall save <i>thee.</i>
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Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/30a" mark="a" type="A" title="Amos 5: 11.">dwell</a> therein: thou shalt <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/28/30b" mark="b" type="A" title="Zeph. 1: 13.">plant</a> a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
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Thine ox <i>shall be</i> slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass <i>shall be</i> violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep <i>shall be</i> given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue <i>them.</i>
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Thy sons and thy daughters <i>shall be</i> given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail <i>with longing</i> for them all the day long: and <i>there</i> <i>shall be</i> no <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/32a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR power to prevent it.">might</a> in thine hand.
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The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
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So that thou shalt be <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/34a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR driven mad by the sight your eyes shall see.">mad</a> for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/36a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Idolatry.">gods</a>, wood and stone.
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And thou shalt become an <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/37a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 65: 15.">astonishment</a>, a <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/28/37b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 24: 9.">proverb</a>, and a <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/28/37c" mark="c" type="A" title="1 Ne. 19: 14.">byword</a>, among all nations whither the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall lead thee.
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Thou shalt carry much <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/38a" mark="a" type="A" title="Micah 6: 15; Hag. 1: 6 (5-11).">seed</a> out into the field, and shalt gather <i>but</i> little in; for the locust shall consume it.
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Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress <i>them,</i> but shalt neither drink <i>of</i> the wine, nor gather <i>the grapes;</i> for the worms shall eat them.
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Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/40a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Anointing.">anoint</a> <i>thyself</i> with the oil; for thine olive shall cast <i>his fruit.</i>
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Thou shalt beget <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/41a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 27: 14 (13-15).">sons</a> and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.
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All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
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The stranger that <i>is</i> within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
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He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
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Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
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And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
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Because thou servedst not the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God with <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/47a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Joy.">joyfulness</a>, and with <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/28/47b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Cheerfulness.">gladness</a> of heart, for the abundance of all <i>things;</i>
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Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all <i>things:</i> and he shall put a <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/48a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Bondage, Physical.">yoke</a> of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall bring a nation against thee from <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/49a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 6: 22 (22-24).">far</a>, from the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/28/49b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 5: 26 (26-30).">end</a> of the earth, <i>as swift</i> as the <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/28/49c" mark="c" type="A" title="Hosea 8: 1.">eagle</a> flieth; a nation whose <sup>d</sup><a href="deut/28/49d" mark="d" type="C" title="Isa. 33: 19; TG Language.">tongue</a> thou shalt not understand;
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A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/50a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 21: 7.">regard</a> the person of the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/28/50b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 3: 5; Lam. 4: 16 (16-17).">old</a>, nor shew favour to the young:
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And he shall <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/51a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 5: 17.">eat</a> the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/28/51b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 1: 7.">land</a>, until thou be destroyed: which <i>also</i> shall not leave thee <i>either</i> corn, wine, or oil, <i>or</i> the increase of thy <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/28/51c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB cattle.">kine</a>, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
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And he shall <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/52a" mark="a" type="A" title="Luke 19: 43 (43-44).">besiege</a> thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hath given thee.
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And thou shalt <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/53a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 26: 29; Jer. 19: 9; 2 Ne. 19: 20.">eat</a> the fruit of thine own body, the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/28/53b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 6: 29 (28-29).">flesh</a> of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/28/53c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR distress (also v. 55, 57).">straitness</a>, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
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&nbsp;&nbsp;54 
<i>So that</i> the man <i>that is</i> tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
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So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
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&nbsp;&nbsp;56 
The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
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And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/57a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lam. 4: 10.">eat</a> them for want of all <i>things</i> secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
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If thou wilt not <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/58a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Obedience.">observe</a> to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/28/58b" mark="b" type="C" title="Ps. 48: 10; TG Name.">name</a>, <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/28/58c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB Jehovah  . . .">THE</a> LORD THY GOD;
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&nbsp;&nbsp;59 
Then the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> will make thy <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/59a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Plagues.">plagues</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/28/59b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB extraordinary.">wonderful</a>, and the plagues of thy seed, <i>even</i> great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/28/59c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Sickness.">sicknesses</a>, and of long continuance.
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&nbsp;&nbsp;60 
Moreover he will bring upon thee all the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/60a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 9: 14.">diseases</a> of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
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&nbsp;&nbsp;61 
Also every sickness, and every plague, which <i>is</i> not written in the book of this law, them will the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
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&nbsp;&nbsp;62 
And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/62a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Disobedience.">obey</a> the voice of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God.
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&nbsp;&nbsp;63 
And it shall come to pass, <i>that</i> as the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/64a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Scattering of.">scatter</a> thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, <i>even</i> wood and stone.
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&nbsp;&nbsp;65 
And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/65a" mark="a" type="R" title="HEB anguish of soul; TG Sorrow.">sorrow</a> of mind:
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&nbsp;&nbsp;66 
And thy life shall hang in <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/66a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Doubt.">doubt</a> before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
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&nbsp;&nbsp;67 
In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even!  and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning!  for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
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&nbsp;&nbsp;68 
And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall bring thee <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/28/68a" mark="a" type="E" title="IE into captivity, symbolized by ‘Egypt.’; Hosea 8: 13.">into</a> Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy <i>you.</i>
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